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The psychology of health

open access: yesCommunications Psychology
Online and offline, we are surrounded by recommendations on how to improve our health and extend our longevity. Ideally, this health advice is grounded in science.
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Social Psychology of Health

open access: yesСоциальная психология и общество, 2023
This issue of the journal "Social Psychology and Society" presents modern research in the field of social psychology of health.
L.A. Tsvetkova
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Psychometric description of the Life Orientation Test-Revised in a South African sample: A pilot study

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Psychological Assessment, 2022
The relevance of dispositional optimism – as measured by the Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R) – in health psychology has been convincingly demonstrated in numerous cross-national studies; however, empirical evidence of its psychometric quality and ...
Charles H. van Wijk
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Validation of a Kazakhstani Version of the Mental Health Continuum—Short Form

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Positive mental health and well-being are significant dimensions of health, employment, and educational outcomes. Research on positive mental health and well-being requires measurement instruments in native languages for use in local contexts and target ...
Daniel Hernández-Torrano   +7 more
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PSYCHOLOGY AND HEALTH: CONTRIBUTIONS OF PSYCHOLOGY TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Psychology, 1987
Psychology as both a science and a profession has been closely identified with other disciplines in the broad field of health since the turn of the century. Recent advances in health care have reinforced the growing belief that the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of illness can be greatly enhanced by incorporating the scientific ...
W H, Holtzman   +3 more
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Lived experiences and unique psychosocial impacts following bariatric surgery in a publicly funded Australian tertiary hospital: a qualitative study

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Psychology, 2022
Objective Gain an understanding of the lived experiences and unique psychosocial impacts following bariatric surgery. Methods Qualitative study design, consisting of semi-structured interviews.
Charlene Wright   +5 more
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Avoiding Crowded Places During COVID-19: Common Sense or a Complex Strategic Decision?

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Introduction: Following a period of strict lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic, most countries introduced policies in which citizens were expected to avoid crowded places using common sense, as advised by the WHO.
Martijn Stroom, Piet Eichholtz, Nils Kok
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Satisfaction with life in workers: A chained mediation model investigating the roles of resilience, career adaptability, self-efficacy, and years of education

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Satisfaction with life is a core dimension of well-being that can be of great importance in the workplace, in light of the close link between worker health and organizational success highlighted by the perspective of healthy organizations.
Eleonora Topino   +3 more
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The interaction between health and personal anxiety in children

open access: yesEuropean Psychiatry, 2021
Introduction In modern health psychology there is a question of separating the concepts of “personal anxiety” and “health anxiety” and defining the interaction features and mutual influence between these concepts.
I. Shishkova, E. Pervichko
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Exploring public attitude toward biofeedback technologies: Knowledge, preferences and personality tendencies

open access: yesJournal of Public Health Research, 2020
Background: Biofeedback is increasingly used in the clinical area and in daily health monitoring through wearable devices (e.g. smart watches). Nevertheless, it remains rather unknown.
Gaetano A. Russo   +4 more
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